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Finland has a high rate of suicide. In summer 24 hours of daylight. In winter 24 hours of darkness. People complain that they can't sleep in summer. So it seems that mental health is directly affected by sleep patterns.

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Also if you look at the league table of places that have the highest levels of things like alcoholism, you get places like Greenland coming up!

9 Jan 2012 at 3:13 PM

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Hi not sure if any body has seen this but I found it interesting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/magazine-16964783

9 Apr 2013 at 7:36 PM

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Here in the U.S. tonight we have our day-light savings time related time change. The dreaded “spring forward” of clocks by one hour. I know this is bound to influence SR schedules and I'm wondering how others plan to cope. In addition, I have to be up two hours early for a work event and it seems like a set up for sleep deprivation tomorrow. Not looking forward to this, to say the least.

7 Mar 2015 at 7:09 PM

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I have noticed I get fewer hours sleep on the night before and the first few nights of my menstrual period. I imagine this is due to falling oestrogen levels (or one of the associated hormonal changes premenstrually.) This did not occur when I took the combined oral contraceptive pill. A good thing about having noticed this pattern is that I know it will pass if I wait it out (just like the irritability.) I've learned not to make major life decisions during this time! I fear this predicts what my sleep will be like during menopause.

28 May 2015 at 6:46 PM

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I get fewer hours of sleep during tax season. I try to get what I can, but I find I often don't have four to five hours available for sleep during that time.

I have noticed that as long as I have a client, and can keep busy, my alertness remains up, but if I sit with nothing to do (like in March), I have a tendency to nod off a bit. I switched tax companies, and I'm now not the sole operator of the office, so I can get up and have a break, walk around, get something to keep me awake. I go for 5 hour energy and I used to use caffeine tablets, but after a particularly bad reaction, I stopped using those entirely.

2 Aug 2016 at 11:57 PM

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Since I see you're talking about lighting, I wonder how much impact red lighting would have on sleep, would it make it any easier than white light? You may notice at certain times of the day, the sun gives off a reddish hue, usually early morning and late afternoons.

I sleep during the day, and even with the blinds closed (they're always closed) it's usually pretty bright in my room, definitely enough to read by. I've gone to sleep with sunglasses on a few times, just the cheap plastic ones.

3 Aug 2016 at 12:01 AM

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I seem to sleep better in the day then at night. I was told that since I was born at 12:34 am that, that makes me a night owl. If I come home and go to bed at 5p and wake up at midnight or 1am I feel fine, so if I go to bed any later I have a hard time falling asleep. The only problem is this is to realistic. I have 2 online companies which I have constant training for and a day job from 6:30a to 2:30p and I need to exercise and sometimes babysit my 98 year old grandmother. I constantly feel all over the place.

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I usually don't have trouble getting to sleep, it's just that I generally wake up after four to five hours. This weekend I stayed with a friend, and I was shocked, because I slept for 12 hours, on her couch. I think I briefly awoke when her kids got up, but she didn't wake until about the same time I did.

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Really sorry i clicked the flag button not knowing what it was and now it's as if i reported it as innapropriate and i can“t undo it

2 Nov 2016 at 12:53 AM

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I am new to this and I am hoping to finds some answers

4 Dec 2016 at 4:33 AM

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I was wondering how many other people in the community are affected by the moon cycle?
The actual night of the full moon, and a night either side always affect my body temperature (I feel hotter at night), and my sleep quality. My father was also the same.

13 Dec 2016 at 5:05 AM

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I'm new too. Just started yesterday!! I find thinking about the sleep diary makes me stay up more when I wake up than before. Oh oh!! I sense this will neutralize out after a week or so. Hope so. Good luck to you.

4 Jan 2017 at 2:05 AM

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Really interested to read everyone's posts on this topic! I've had a really poor week sleepwise this week, and it was my own fault in the beginning, but not the past 3 nights. I feel quite despondent this morning, and very tired. Hopefully when the Wolf moon moves on out, my sleep will move on back in.
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13 Jan 2017 at 5:46 AM

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Hi Leeny, welcome to Sleepio; I was the same the first couple of weeks. I think I was obsessing about filling in the diary correctly, and logging when I woke up, and for how long etc, that I hardly got any sleep at all! It will settle down.
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I really struggle to sleep a few nights before a full moon. It really seems to energise me. I purposely don’t take to much notice of the moon but can tell by my energy levels and then a peak out of the window confirms it. When the moon starts to wane I tend to get my longest soundest sleep.
Anyone else like this?